Huntsville gazette., 1887-07-30

VOLUME VIII.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Campiled from Various Sources.
TIE Scotch yacht Thistle sailed on the
s5tb from Glasgow for America.
rur recent Massachusetts, floods have
damaged property, it is said, more thar
100000
ru,pry.E1GHT Liberal British peers have
..o.asted against the enforcement of CO
srcion in Ireland.
r;s the opinion in London that Russia
,as Iaft a number of loopholes in the
Afabon frontier agreement Just made
with England.
I'm McGLYNN announced positively al
~ Work. on the 22d, that the United
Iohor marty will run a candidate for Pres.
ident next year.
ruv roceipts of the United States from
1,,v 70 the 22d were $23,525, 1888 and the
oTnandtures So, 795, Al, being a net gain
TO date of ST29,947.
NEGOTIATIONS are reported to be in
-roarass between Mr.. Gould and Mr.
Mackey with view to the termination OF
.ba OCEAN cable war.
FoRTy-yINE new cases OF cholera and
TWENTY-FIVE deaths were reported at
Catania on the 23d. A few deaths were
reported in other towns.
THE steamer Sir John Lawrence, which
was lost in the Bay of Bengal, is now said
to have had eight hundred persons on
board, all of whom were lost.
MAYOR FRANCIS of st. Louis and the
Missouri delegation called on the President
on the 18th and invited him to visit st.
Louis in October, which he agreed to do.
RAposLAvoFF, late Prime Minister of
Bulgaria, is prisoner at Varna, charged
with treason. Armed bands OF marau-
ders overrun Bulgaria, and the country is
in state of terrorism.
THE Interstate Commerce Commission,
on the23d, heard the complaint OF Rev.
Mr.. Councill, colored, of Georgia, who
charges discrimination against him, by
reason of his color, by the Western & At.
lantic railroad.
THE Secretary of the Navy has adver.
tised for proposals for the construction OF
one irst-class torpedo boat at the best and
most modern design, constructed OF steel
of domestic manufacture, and to have the
highest attainable speed.
THE Interstate Commerce Commission
has created bureau to be styled it's de-
partment of statistics, the head of which
will be denominated the auditor. Mr.. c.
G. Mccain has been appointed auditor and
will enter on his duties August l.
THE Minneapolis (Minn.) Chamber O.
Commerce, at meeting on the 22d, ap
pointed committee to meet with other
committees to extend an invitation to Presi
dent Cleveland to visit Minneapolis in his
proposed Northwestern trip.
to have offered the same amount (S3,OOO,-
oo0) for the property and franchises of the
Baltimore & Ohio Telegraph Company as
was offered by Mr.. Gould, with the idea of
making cooperative concern of it.
The scenery, stage properties, costumes,
etc, of the National Opera Company have
been seized by the sheriff at Jersey CITY,
NJ. Mrs. II. K. Thurber, of New York,
loaned S52000 to the company, and she has
instituted suit to recover the amount.
A STATUE Of Pope Urban II. was un-
vailed on the 22d at Chatilon, a suburb of
farls, and the birthplace of Urban, in the
presence OF the papal nuncio at Paris, the
Arcnolshop of Paris, the Archbishop of
hnelms and twenty three bishops. Bishop
sTeppel delivered an eloquent address.
DAN1EL LYONS was arrested in Pitts
0urgh several days ago for stealing silver
ware and confessed to the theft. He was
suspected OF being an Eastern crook, and
las been identified as the man who killed
soSeph Quinn in New York on July 5. He
mas been taken back to New York.
A SPECIAL edition of the Dublin Gazette
announces the following counties fully
proclaimed under the Crimes act: Kings,
nnelFrlm, u Longford, Sligo, Galway, Mayo,
no!seommon, N! Clare, Kerry, Cork, Linn
erlcS, Kilkenny, Queens, Tiperary, Water
iOro' Donegal, and Monaghan.
, DWIGHT l.. MOODY, the evangelist, thinks
'ue newspaper fraternity of the country
neeos laboring with. He is decidedly op-
posed TO Sunday papers, and says he never
.eads one of them, adding: "You can't
pound sermon into a man after he has
so' through reading one Of those Sunday
Papers,
:, MARY AGNES OSBORNE has begun suit in
oe" o York against her husband Hugh
CCsoorne, superintendent of the French
.aoie Company. She alleges that Os.
uNne has frequently whipped her with a
s"nch, knocking her down and otherwise
=. ,,a.a'featlng her. Osborne's friends say
1rs Osborne is insane.
HE race for the National League base
"a Saa championship is becoming interest
chicago, at the close of the week
rnueo the 23d, was within one of tieing
~ ,IIToit, and Boston is getting uncomfor-
Nv oiy close for both of the leaders. In
ne Association race the st. Louis Browns
lage to maintain their lead without
any serious effort.